2511 Nov Dec 2025

In This Issue:

Vol. 42 • Issue No. 4
The Late Season Buck Challenge  •  Backwater Basics: Kayak Tips for Reds & Black Drum  •  Hopeful Signs for Texas’ Vanishing Quail?  •  Forward Facing Sonar: Good for Crappie  •  Cell Cams: Modern Tech for Modern Hunters  •  Hunting Public Land? There’s an App for That  •  Profile: The Reel Rudow  •  Plus… Columns, News in the Fish & Game Report, Coastal Focus Reports from Professional Saltwater Anglers, Tides and Solunar data and more…

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RIGHT OR WRONG, many of the on-then-off-then-on-again tariff threats made earlier this year have been carried out, to varying degrees. If  these acts of “tariffism” have not yet hit your pocketbook or your business, they will. They have already invaded the sanctity of the outdoors sporting world. 

Screwworm Updates I WANT TO THANK Texas Fish & Game for staying on top of the screwworm issue in your newsletter [The Fish & Game Report]. A lot of hunters and ranchers around here don’t realize how devastating these pests

The Ghost Elk of Newton County in East Texas   LISTEN: (6 min, 2 sec)   I’LL NEVER FORGET THE SHOCK of my life in college while hunting in Newton County, Texas. I had a little game camera strapped to a

THE COOLER’S FULL OF ICE, the livewell’s full of baits, and you’re ready to launch that boat and enjoy a day of fishing. There’s just one problem: you still need to get the boat from the trailer into the water. And at the end of the day you’ll need to load it back up. No big deal, right?

Improved Conditions Spur Cautious Optimism After Decades of Declining Quail Numbers Feature Article by TF&G Staff LISTEN: (6 min, 49 sec)   ASK ANY VETERAN QUAIL HUNTER in Texas and you will hear the same story. There were times when

The Season to Be Jolly Has Finally Arrived! by LOU MARULLO | TF&G Hunting Editor   LISTEN: (5 min, 11 sec)   WELL… IT HAS FINALLY ARRIVED! Tis the season to be jolly! I am not talking about Santa coming to

PUBLIC LAND HUNTING in Texas and across the country has always come with two challenges: finding the right place to go and then learning how to navigate it once you get there. In the old days, hunters carried folded topo maps, compass bearings, and maybe a worn-out county atlas…

THE OUTDOOR WORLD has lost an icon. Legendary outdoors television host and personality “Cajun Phil” Broussard has passed away.
Phil wasn’t just a fisherman or a hunter. He was a voice for the outdoors culture and a man who lived every day in tune with the marshes and waters of his home state and beyond…

THE FANTASTIC FALL FISHING is in full swing here on Sabine Lake. The more frequent and stronger fronts that these last two months of the year will bring should kick it up a notch as we transition into the cold water season. Exciting times are upon us as we are thankful for everything the holiday season stands for. That excitement seems to spill over into our bay system…

MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR has arrived.  Cooler weather, working birds, giant Redfish, Deer hunting and time with family means the Holiday season has arrived!  There are so many different opportunities for fishing Galveston Bay this time of year.  Whether you like fishing the jetties, backwaters, drifting over mud and shell or wade fishing, the entire bay system can be very productive…